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T.C. Elliott is a storyteller, more fabricator than poet, and more prone to narration than eloquence. He describes himself as a blue collar lyricist with a straightforward, midwestern bent. His guitar playing and steady voice relate tales and ideas in a workmanlike fashion. He writes and releases songs in a range of genres, from Folk Rock and Americana to Post-Punk and Hard Rock with his one-man band, Dead Ambassadors. He enjoys riding his motorcycle and spending time with his family. In 2009, he earned his blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Missouri in 2023 and is seeking his first publication as a poet.

Pablo Zarate is a design leader with over two decades of experience shaping how teams build and deliver digital products. His work focuses on bringing clarity and consistency to complex environments through strong teams, shared standards, and systems that enable quality to scale over time. He has led design at Increase Latam, FOX Networks, and National Geographic. Currently, he is Design Manager at Banco Galicia. Based in Buenos Aires, Pablo has mentored emerging design leaders, participates as a guest expert in academic settings, and has organized design and creative events.

Jon is a Senior Director of Discovery & Design at AstraZeneca. He has experience in Product, Design, and Engineering at companies like Hershey's and Nielsen. With over 10 years at Hershey and 15+ years in CPG/Retail, Jon is skilled at Problem Framing, Research, and Hypothesis-Driven Product Validation. People he has worked with say he is good at Cross-Functional Team Leadership. Jon lives in Tampa, Florida, and is passionate about his work. He considers himself an optimist and values passionate ownership and engagement in his work.

Stefano Cianciulli is a Software Engineer originally from Rome, Italy, currently living in London, United Kingdom. He studied Engineering in Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for his Master's degree. He has experience working on RESTful microservices, distributed systems, and data pipelines at companies like Snapp, Ocado Technology, Amazon, and eBay. His work has involved Python, Django, Celery, Flask, JavaScript, jQuery, and Backbone.js.

Bruno Arine is a data scientist based in Brazil with a passion for personal knowledge management, philosophy, and ham radio. He worked for 12 years in the nuclear industry and is a licensed ham radio operator who enjoys searching for transmissions on short-wave radio bands. He shares his writings and personal notes online, believing that ideas should be public domain. He can be reached via LinkedIn, Mastodon, Goodreads, or email, and encourages encrypted communication using his PGP key.

Giorgiana Vlăsceanu, also known as gege, is a learner, organizer, and trainer with a passion for startups. She writes about her experiences, lessons learned, diversity, and other topics. She loves people and enjoys working with both data and intuition. Giorgiana is a lecturer at Automatică și Calculatoare. She studied Computer Science at Universitatea Politehnică București, where she also pursued a PhD in Document Image Processing. With over 10 years of volunteer experience, she co-founded the Codette community and was active with StepFWD. She considers herself a generalist who values authenticity, vulnerability, integrity, respect, responsibility, and continuous learning.

Stan Bright, also known as Stanislav Bozhkov, is a software engineer and entrepreneur originally from Bulgaria and currently residing in Sydney, Australia. He is passionate about software development, automation, productivity, business, philosophy, good books, a healthy and active lifestyle, and building products that improve people’s lives. Stan is the creator of SaaSHub and LibHunt, and is currently working on GoodStrata.au. He considers himself a polymath in progress.

Yordi Verkroost is a computer science teacher and athletics coach. He describes his journey as a lifelong pursuit of growth and aims to inspire others while chasing personal progress. He shares his thoughts and discoveries on his website, including his current interests in music and books. He also provides a digital CV.

Scott Huson is an engineer and computer scientist who enjoys solving problems. He graduated from Brown University in 2023 with a degree in Computer Engineering. His public projects can be found on GitHub. He is open to collaborations and conversations and can be reached via email.

Michael R. Bock is a startup founder and the co-founder & CTO of Column Tax, a company focused on making the tax system more fair. Based in California, he is interested in technology, software architecture, scaling software organizations, startups, politics, autonomous vehicles, and cities. His work history includes Column Tax, Uber ATG Aurora, Pioneer, Waymo, Google/YouTube, and Udacity. He also occasionally angel invests and offers advice to early-stage founders, particularly on hiring strategy.

Swapnesh Samaiya is an independent game designer and researcher. He designs games, playful interactions, and learning experiences, working with studios, institutes, startups, and in collaboration with other designers, artists, researchers, and developers. Currently, he is building an independent game design studio and working on two new game titles. He also teaches Game and Interaction design at various design institutes in India as a visiting faculty. Previously, he has worked as a design consultant for multiple organizations in the area of game design, research, gamification, interaction design, mental health, and experiential learning. In his spare time, he volunteers with play and learning centers, conducting workshops and developing playful learning tools and materials for teachers and homeschoolers.

Gergely Orosz writes The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter, a newsletter for engineering managers and senior engineers. He is also an advisor at mobile.dev. He spent four years at Uber in Amsterdam, leading mobile, web, and backend teams, and built large distributed systems and mobile apps at scale. Prior to Uber, he worked at Skyscanner and Skype/Microsoft, working on Skype for XBox One and Skype for Web. He also has experience building trading software at J.P. Morgan and shipping apps for Windows Phone.

Jon Deaves is a web developer at @LOGO.com. He is an experienced developer specializing in interactive web applications with a passion for creating delightful user experiences. Jon is proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and various web technologies. He prefers a light and easy approach to web development, avoiding excessive graphics, animations, and interactivity.

Damola Morenikeji is a writer/storyteller, social entrepreneur, and operator. They love making and helping others make new things. Damola founded Curiosity to support people on adventures that create abundance and solve meaningful problems. They held founding roles at impact-driven organizations and helped launch initiatives that reached millions. Their adventures span global education, media, conscious leadership, responsible innovation, ethics and governance of AI/technology, and human flourishing. Damola writes the blog byDamo.la.

Joel is a blogger who writes about a variety of topics. Recent posts include the anatomy of an open source AI coding agent, exporting avocados from Rwanda to Singapore, deploying ComfyUI on Modal with an API, starting an Informatics Olympiad Program, and configuring React PDF Highlighter For Next.js 13. Joel can be contacted via joel[at]joellee.org.

Ayushman Khazanchi is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden, where he focuses on Cloud, Infra, and DevOps for Volumental. He graduated from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in August 2023 with a master's degree in Software Engineering of Distributed Systems. His thesis benchmarks are published in a paper titled The Hopsworks Feature Store for Machine Learning at SIGMOD '24. Prior to Volumental, he worked at Hopsworks (Master Thesis), IBM, and KTH. Before moving to Sweden, Ayushman was a Senior Cloud Engineer at Oracle, working on cloud platform and DevOps projects in both Philadelphia and India, and served as a technical lead for multiple projects.

Dan Kristoph runs the Positivity Stories blog, a personal development website. He is passionate about reading and writing personal development content with the hope of helping others develop themselves positively. He believes the right content can help people progress in a positive direction. He also authored the book "23 Good Habits in Life: The Simple Routine Practices that Can Make You More Positive, Happy, and Successful."

Michael Kumm, also known as mkumm, is a senior software engineer specializing in Elixir, Phoenix, and functional programming. He focuses on building scalable, maintainable, and elegant systems. He enjoys using LiveView, Tailwind, and AI automation tools to bring ideas to life. Michael is expanding his expertise into infrastructure, including AWS and CI/CD pipelines. He creates side projects like Sprytna.Cards and retro-style games with PICO-8. He also enjoys tinkering with his development environment, including Neovim and shell scripts. Michael is interested in computer science foundations, parsers, protocols, event sourcing, and low-level systems. He splits his time between Poland and the U.S., enjoys walking, photography, and learning Polish. He is also working on ideas related to personal fundamental change labeled 99 x of.